Surf City Film Festival at the Museum of Sydney. Image courtesy HHT.
Remember BondLife’s blog post on the Surf City Exhibition? Even if you don’t consider yourself a grommit, skeg, nipper or beach bum, without doubt you’ll identify with the great range movies showing at the Surf City Film Festival. Whilst these popular titles do well at reflecting beach and surf culture, these movies have become iconic and helped to shape modern culture as we know it today. Even if you have seen these movies – you can’t miss this festival, as surfers, filmmakers and cultural commentators will be on hand at each screening to explore these marvels.
Surf City Film Festival Schedule
Gidget (1959) and Blue Hawaii (1961) – 11 February with Nell Schofield; actor, TV presenter and producer, and Jaimie and Aspasia Leonarder; Mu Meson film archive. Gidget follows the story of Francis who is at heads with some surfers while swimming one day and eventually becomes drawn to not only surfing but the surfers, themselves. Blue Hawaii, is an Elvis classic, and the first of three movies that he shot in Hawaii. This fun musical follows Chad Gates as he returns to the surfing culture of Hawaii after serving in the army.
Puberty Blues (1971) – 18 February with Paul Byrnes; Sydney Morning Herald film critic and senior curator for Australian Screen Online, Paul Clarke; director and producer of Bombora and Rebecca Olive; academic and surfing blogger. Puberty Blues is a cult-classic that follows the lives of a group of Aussie teenage girls as they grow up on the beach and hanging out with the local surfer boys. Puberty Blues was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja.
Heaven (1997), Hell (2009) and Bra Boys (2007) – 25 February with Nell Schofield; actor, TV presenter and producer and Macario De Souza; director of Bra Boys. These movies are both experimental and controversial. Nell Schofield will talk about her movie Hell, created in response to Tracey Moffatt’s art film Heaven, which compiles footage of male surfers posing, surfing, dressing and undressing on Australian beaches. Bra Boys centres on Sydney’s notorious Maroubra surf-gang of the same name and looks at their success as big wave surfers, as well as other aspects of their turbulent lives both in, and out of surfing culture.
Where: Museum of Sydney, Corner Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney, NSW 2000, Contact: 02 8239 2211
When: Saturdays 11, 18 & 25 February – 1pm – 4pm
Tickets are available at the HHT website. Cost per session: General $30 or| $25 for members or concession, or a Festival ticket (the three sessions for the price of 2) only $60.
Surf City Film Festival
by admin on Feb 3, 2012 • 9:39 am No CommentsSurf City Film Festival at the Museum of Sydney. Image courtesy HHT.
Remember BondLife’s blog post on the Surf City Exhibition? Even if you don’t consider yourself a grommit, skeg, nipper or beach bum, without doubt you’ll identify with the great range movies showing at the Surf City Film Festival. Whilst these popular titles do well at reflecting beach and surf culture, these movies have become iconic and helped to shape modern culture as we know it today. Even if you have seen these movies – you can’t miss this festival, as surfers, filmmakers and cultural commentators will be on hand at each screening to explore these marvels.
Surf City Film Festival Schedule
Gidget (1959) and Blue Hawaii (1961) – 11 February with Nell Schofield; actor, TV presenter and producer, and Jaimie and Aspasia Leonarder; Mu Meson film archive. Gidget follows the story of Francis who is at heads with some surfers while swimming one day and eventually becomes drawn to not only surfing but the surfers, themselves. Blue Hawaii, is an Elvis classic, and the first of three movies that he shot in Hawaii. This fun musical follows Chad Gates as he returns to the surfing culture of Hawaii after serving in the army.
Puberty Blues (1971) – 18 February with Paul Byrnes; Sydney Morning Herald film critic and senior curator for Australian Screen Online, Paul Clarke; director and producer of Bombora and Rebecca Olive; academic and surfing blogger. Puberty Blues is a cult-classic that follows the lives of a group of Aussie teenage girls as they grow up on the beach and hanging out with the local surfer boys. Puberty Blues was directed by Bruce Beresford and stars Nell Schofield and Jad Capelja.
Heaven (1997), Hell (2009) and Bra Boys (2007) – 25 February with Nell Schofield; actor, TV presenter and producer and Macario De Souza; director of Bra Boys. These movies are both experimental and controversial. Nell Schofield will talk about her movie Hell, created in response to Tracey Moffatt’s art film Heaven, which compiles footage of male surfers posing, surfing, dressing and undressing on Australian beaches. Bra Boys centres on Sydney’s notorious Maroubra surf-gang of the same name and looks at their success as big wave surfers, as well as other aspects of their turbulent lives both in, and out of surfing culture.
Where: Museum of Sydney, Corner Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney, NSW 2000, Contact: 02 8239 2211
When: Saturdays 11, 18 & 25 February – 1pm – 4pm
Tickets are available at the HHT website. Cost per session: General $30 or| $25 for members or concession, or a Festival ticket (the three sessions for the price of 2) only $60.